Overbooked Reader

Author: John Green Title: The Fault in Our Stars Place Published: New York, USA Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Year Published: 2012 No. of Pages: 318 Price: TBA Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell Synopsis Hazel Grace Lancaster is a 16-year-old girl dying from cancer. The cancer cells now live in her lungs, so needs help from an oxygen tank when breathing. Her friend Isaac already lost an eye to cancer and learns that he will soon lose the other eye too. During one of their cancer support group sessions in “the literal heart of Jesus,” Isaac introduces hazel to his friend and fellow cancer-survivor 17-year-old Augustus Waters , or “Gus” for short. Gus suffers from a kind of cancer called osteosarcoma, and lost his leg because of it. He is the happiest and has the highest chance of survival among the three. Hazel and Gus get along splendidly from the very beginning, and there seems to be a bit of sexual tension between them too. They spend a lot of time togeth

This is a late post (and you'll probably end up reading this much later than today, since my blog is new and all), but I had lots of fun at the 2013 Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) in SMX. I came home with almost a dozen books, mostly bought from the Fully Booked and National Book Store booths. Welcome to the MIBF!  The NBS booth was right across the entrance...and it's huge. The FB booth was more subdued, with a maze of books. It was like going on a treasure hunt. My book loot from the 2013 MIFB consists of the following (refer to photo from top to bottom): Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn  The story seems interesting, and I thing there's a movie of it showing soon. Foundation by Isaac Asimov I'm trying to get into sci-fi novels and Asimov is one of the greats. I recently read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and thought it was great.  Peace and War by Joe Haldeman I was a bit wary of this sci-fi tri

Author: Orson Scott Card Title: Ender’s Game Place Published: New York Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Year Published: 1991 No. of Pages: 324 Price: Php315 Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell Ender’s Game, as far as I can remember, is the first science fiction (sci-fi) book I’ve ever finished reading. It only took me half a day to read Orson Scott Card’s book, and I'm glad that many first-time sci-fi readers found it just as accessible. More than being an easy read this novel also won the prestigious Hugo Award (1985) and Nebula Award (1986), both annually given to outstanding literature. Synopsis The earth is recovering from a second alien attack. In response, world governments unify. They begin training military geniuses in the art of war at a very young age. Six-year-old Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is one of the trainees recruited and transported to Battle School in outer space. There is only one ‘game’ in Battle School: non-lethal anti-gravity battles between two te

Author: Marisha Pessl Title: Night Film Place Published:  New York Publisher: Random House Year Published: 2013 No. of Pages: 587 Price:  Php799 Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell Buy From Amazon: Night Film: A Novel Opening Credits IT’S been a seven-year-long wait for Marisha Pessl ’s second novel, but was Night Film worth it? Her debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics won the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (known then as the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize). The New York Times Book Review also named it one of the 10 Best Books of 2006. Expectations were building for Pessl, and she would ultimately deliver, proving she was more than just a one-hit wonder. Introduction Night Film follows the narrative of disgraced investigate reporter Scott McGrath , whose career and marriage were ruined after a failed investigation on occult filmmaker Stanislas Cordova . “There is something he does to the children,” an anonym